what happened to make world?

[Freddie Cash]

On August 30, 2007 12:49 pm Pietro Cerutti wrote:
> Mike Meyer wrote:
> > On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:27:18 +0200 Pietro Cerutti <gahr at gahr.ch> 
wrote:
> >> Max Laier wrote:
> >>> On Thursday 30 August 2007, Pietro Cerutti wrote:
> >>>> # make world
> >>>> WARNING: make world will overwrite your existing FreeBSD
> >>>> installation without also building and installing a new
> >>>> kernel.  This can be dangerous.  Please read the handbook,
> >>>> 'Rebuilding world', for how to upgrade your system.
> >>>> Define DESTDIR to where you want to install FreeBSD,
> >>>> including /, to override this warning and proceed as usual.
> >>>> You may get the historical 'make world' behavior by defining
> >>>> HISTORICAL_MAKE_WORLD.  You should understand the implications
> >>>> before doing this.
> >>>>
> >>>> Bailing out now...
> >>>> *** Error code 1
> >>>>
> >>>> Stop in /usr/src.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Now, THIS is quite funny... do you really thing that a person with
> >>>> - root access
> >>>> - the knowledge of the existence of "make world"
> >>>> needs this sort of things?
> >>>>
> >>>> I didn't see anything about this new-wave-of-user-friendly-bsd
> >>>> going on the list.. have I missed something?
> >>>
> >>> And your complaint would be ... what exactly?
> >>
> >> I don't want my OS to treat me like a stupid.
> >
> > Yeah, we have Windows for that. Or if you hate MS, GNU/Linux.
> >
> > But there are valid reasons for wanting to do a make world (i.e. -
> > you've changed make.conf options the kernel doesn't use). If it's
> > going to be friendly, it should tell us how to do what we told it to
> > do....
>
> Even worse.. it doesn't tell you how to do what you tell him to do.. it
> doubts that maybe that's not what you really want to do!

From the bit you quoted in your first post:
----------
Define DESTDIR to where you want to install FreeBSD,
including /, to override this warning and proceed as usual.

You may get the historical 'make world' behavior by defining
HISTORICAL_MAKE_WORLD.  You should understand the implications
before doing this.
----------

Tells you right there how to work around this warning.

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